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MAN'S PRIVATE COMPANION, 



SOUND BODIES 



ARE NECESSAET TO 



SOUND MINDS AND PUEE I0KALS. 



OUR FIELD IS THE WORLD : 
OUR BROTHER, — SUFFERING MAN. 



OUR OBJECT: 

THE RELIEF OF HUMAN BUFFERING ; THE INCREASE 

OF HAPPINESS ; AND TO SAVE LIFE. 



HORACE KNAPP, M. D., 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

1873. A 



Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, 

BY HORACE KNAPP, 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



INTRODUCTION. 



We need no one to tell us that the world is full 
of evil and misery, vice and crime ; to remove and 
prevent which, all good men and women, especially 
all Christians, spend much time, talent, and money, 
that thereby they may make mankind wiser, better, 
and happier, when they will be better prepared for 
the duties and pleasures of life and life eternal. * 

Although the church and state are expending 
vast sums of money, and much time and labor, as 
are many individuals, to remove the evils and sins 
of life, still the dark tidal-wave of evil and crime 
rolls over our land and the world, bearing before it 
many of the fairest and loveliest women, and many 
of the most talented and promising men, and much 
of the joy and happiness of life. 

In spite of the free use of money and herculean 
efforts made to rescue suffering humanity and 
christianize the world, the result is not in propor- 
tion to the money expended and labor performed, 
for the reason that our efforts have been directed 
,A^|^igainst effects ', instead of causes. We have been 
trying to purify fountains by purging streams that 
flow from them, which we can never do. 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

If we would succeed in this noble work, we 
must seek, find, and remove the causes of evil, vice, 
and crime. 

It is noble and God-like to raise and save the 
fallen ; but it is nobler and better to prevent men 
and women from falling. 

He who helps us out of trouble is a friend in 
need; but he who prevents us from getting into 
trouble is a better friend, a friend indeed. It is 
better and much cheaper to save men from vice 
and crime, than to reform them, if we can, when 
they are sunk in these, which cannot always be 
done. It costs only four hundred dollars for the 
State to educate a man, which is the best protec- 
tion against vice and crime, while it costs it twelve 
hundred dollars for every man sent to state-prison. 

Besides, those who have never been addicted to 
vice and crime are more reliable, make better 
Christians, and are less liable to yield to tempta- 
tions and fall, than reformed criminals. As white 
paper once soiled can never be made perfectly 
white, so a character once stained can never be 
made in this world so pure as before. 

Believing that the abuse of the sexual passion, 
which is the subject of this pamphlet, is the worst 
vice of which fallen man is guilty, involving as it 
does more awful consequences than any other vice 
or sin ; and that it is more destructive to man- 
hood, morals, virtue and religion, church and 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

state, and is the most degrading to mankind, 
and most destructive to mind, soul, and body, I 
send forth this pamphlet, hoping, trusting, and be- 
lieving it will do much good. 

I am not only anxious to do all I can to save 
men and women from vice and crime, while I live, 
and desirous to leave the world better than I found 
it, which should be the object of every one ; to leave 
it better for my having lived ; but, I would help on 
the good work, in saving men from sin and vice, 
when the hand which has written these pages, and 
much more for suffering humanity, shall be palsied 
by death, and my voice be silent in the grave. 

I therefore leave this and other writings to man- 
kind, that, being dead, I may still speak to the 
living, warning men, especially young men, against 
vice in all its forms, and its awful consequences ; 
and exhort and persuade them to flee the haunts 
of sin, and live a pure, true, and noble life, which 
only'can command the love and respect of the 
virtuous and good, secure success in business, and 
the end and aim of life — happiness. 

In consideration of the fact that the vice of self- 
abuse, as practised by young men, is destructive to 
morals, body, mind, and soul, and as it is impossi- 
ble for its victims to become Christians, or even 
respectable men ; and as it is ruining more young 
men than the Church can save, therefore I ask all 
parents, teachers, and ministers of Christ, and 



6 I NT ROD UC TION. 

Christian associations, and Christians of every 
name and denomination, and all good men and 
women, to unite and do all in their power to sup- 
press this greatest and most destructive vice of 
which fallen man is guilty, and that ruins and 
sends to the grave annually so many young men, 
which can only be done by lectures, and the dis- 
tribution of pamphlets on this subject. 



THE SEXUAL PASSION. 

ITS NATURE AND ABUSE. 

There is no other passion of man that is more 
noble and ennobling, and that has such a high 
mission in the world, as the sexual passion ; and 
yet there is no other that is so abused, and the 
abuse of which produces so much and so great evil 
as this, the ruling passion of men and women. 

It is the bond of union between the sexes, and 
the source of all affection between men and 
women, and hence the basis of marriage, home, 
and society. 

It is the source of children, the main-spring of 
action, the measure of our physical powers, and 
our mental and moral calibre. 

It moulds the human form divine into beautiful 
proportions ; gives brilliancy to the mind, polishes 
our manners, gives grace and dignity to our move- 
ments, charm to conversation, and is the most 
refining and inspiring passion of mankind, the 
most elevating to character, and beautifying to 
form and feature.' 

Although it is all this, and more, in its nature, 



8 THE SEXUAL PASSION. 

yet, because it is more abused than any other 
passion, it is more denounced. 

While we cannot denounce too strongly its 
abuse, there is no reason to denounce the passion, 
which is so necessary to fit us for this state of 
being. 

God made man with such appetites and pas- 
sions as were necessary to him, and they are all 
right and good in themselves. 

Therefore, we cannot take from him a single 
appetite or passion, without marring the human 
form divine ; nor deny him their proper gratifica- 
tion, according to the laws of his being, without 
diminishing the sum of human happiness. 

It is not the sexual passion that is wrong, and 
that has produced so much evil, and filled the 
world with sin and sorrow; but its abuse. Why 
then should we denounce it, and try to suppress or 
destroy it? which we cannot do, since it is the 
work of God, and necessary to this life. 

In so doing, we war against God, as well as 
against our nature. It argues nothing against 
sexual love because it has been abused. If we 
should destroy every faculty and passion of man 
that has been abused, there would be nothing of 
him left. 

The fact that God made sexual love, and made 
the propagation of the human race to depend on 
its indulgence in marriage* when it not only adds 



THE SEXUAL PASSION. Q 

to the pleasures and happiness of life, is irrefuta- 
ble evidence that the passion and its indulgence is 
right and good. 

Without it the command, " Multiply and replen- 
ish the earth, " would never be fulfilled. 

Sexual love is no more condemnable because it 
is abused, than the love of money, and our mental 
and physical powers, and our appetites and other 
passions, which are more or less abused daily. • 

Yet, there is.no other passion that is so abused, 
and its abuse attended with such mental, moral, 
and physical evil, and awful consequences, as the 
sexual passion. 

And there is nothing else in the world that is so 
destructive to morals and virtue, mind and body, 
to manhood and, womanhood, and that so de- 
bauches and degrades men and women, and so 
effectually destroys individuals and nations, as such 
abuse ! 

There is no strength of body or mind, nor any 
virtue and goodness, that can resist the destructive 
influence of its abuse. 

And there is nothing else that so unfits men and 
women for business, and the pleasures and happi- 
ness of life, and its duties, and that so well fits 
them for any and all sins and crimes, and so com- 
pletely wrecks the whole man and woman, as the 
abuse of the sexual passion ! 

Its abuse will change the most amiable, affec- 



10 THE SEXUAL PASSION, 

tionate man or woman into the most hateful, fret- 
ting, peevish, fault-finding, quarrelsome person in 
the world; which accounts for the surprising 
change that comes over many men and women 
after they have been married a few years. 

Its abuse is also one of the greatest causes of 
physical diseases and nervousness, crossness, and 
quarrels between husbands and wives, and is fre- 
quently the cause of breaking up families. 

Could we remove the curtain which hides from 
public gaze the victims of sexual abuse, we should 
be astonished to find so many of the most intelli- 
gent class of people among them, who have the air 
and appearance of respectability, and move in the 
best society, and whose faces are wreathed in 
smiles, while the canker-worm of guilt and disease 
are gnawing out their hea#s. 

It well might blanch the ruddiest cheek, and 
freeze the warmest blood, to look upon so sad a 
sight ! 

The victims of sexual abuse are thickly strewn 
all along the highways and by-ways of life, writh- 
ing in all stages of disease and misery ! 

Many of the fairest, most intellectual, and 
learned men and women of all ages of the world, 
who were once the charm of happy homes, and 
stars in the best society, in consequence of expos- 
ure to temptations, have fallen, like angels from 
heaven, to rise no more! It is a lamentable 



THE SEXUAL PASSION, II 

and startling fact, that there is no society and no 
class of people into which this monster vice has 
not found its way! It has ruined not only indi- 
viduals and happy homes, but nations. 

The anguish, lamentation, and groans of its 
broken-hearted, bleeding, dying victims, are borne 
upon every breeze that sweeps this fair earth! 
There is no hour of the day or night, that does not 
witness the sacrifice of some human being upon 
its fiery altar! 

Youth, beauty, and loveliness, talent and genius, 
high position in society, church, or state, are no 
protection against its hell-consuming fires ! Such 
as those seem the special objects of its implacable 
wrath ! 

I would not be understood, by these sweeping 
remarks in regard to the extent of licentiousness, 
that there is no virtue and purity in men and 
women ; for, thank God, there is much! But there 
is no disguising the fact, that licentiousness, which 
is*confined to no classes of people, is fearfully on 
the increase, which should excite the greatest 
alarm in all good men and women, who would 
save our homes and societyj and the marriage in- 
stitution, from this dark tidal-wave, and avert the 
burning, scalding wrath of God, which fell on the 
nations of the past, that gave themselves up to 
lust and vice! 

No one who has not been professionally admitted 



12 THE SEXUAL PASSION. 

behind the curtain which covers this vice, or been 
initiated into its ranks, can have any idea of the 
extent and awful consequence of the abuse of the 
'sexual passion! 

It has blasted the fairest prospects and fondest 
hopes of men and women, and threatens the des- 
truction of society, church, and state ! 

There is no man nor woman that can long re- 
main in contact with this vice of so frightful mien, 
that to be hated needs but to be seen, that will not, 
sooner or later, become contaminated with it 

And no man can long go after bad women, 
whose steps take hold on hell, and not be bank- 
rupt in purse and character. 

And what is most startling, is the fact, that the 
abuse of sexual love in married life, where it is legal- 
ized^ has caused more diseases, evil, suffering, vice, 
and crime, as I shall soon show, than its abuse out 
of matrimony ! 

Its abuse in married life, which is no fault of 
wives, not only produces most of the diseases of 
married women with which they suffer so much, 
but, it often causes such a leucorrhcea that a hus- 
band may, and frequently does, contract it of his 
wife, when he will have all the symptoms of gon- 
orrhoea. 

There are many such cases, where an innocent 
wife has been disgraced and divorced on the 
ground that she has been unfaithful, and given her 



THE SEXUAL PASSION, I 3 

husband a private disease, through the ignorance 
of physicians and the. legal profession, while the 
husband, who is the cause of the disease and of 
her disgrace, goes unpunished by man, and receives 
the sympathy of all who know of the case, for his 
misfortune in having such a wife. 

Although there is no law of the land to punish 
such a crime, he cannot escape the punishment of 
God. 

Some men compel their wives to submit to their 
embrace, regardless of their pleading to be ex- 
cused on the ground that they have no desire for 
an embrace, or that they are weary from hard work, 
or are sick ; and if the wife will not yield to their 
request, they become angry, turn their back to 
them, and say, "Well, if you won't, I know some- 
body who will," giving a wife the idea that her 
husband considers her his slave, and a mere tool 
for the gratification of his passion, which makes 
her hate and despise him. 

When a man has become so low and mean as to 
say such to a wife, heis the strongest proof of total 

; depravity we can find. Many wives are deprived 
the right brutes enjoy, the right to receive or reject 
the male, which right the male brute respects. Yet 

i men have the legal right to compel them to submit 

\ to their embraces against their desire, which is not 

! only wrong but wicked. 

I believe in woman's God-given ri o hts, the first 



14 THE SEXUAL PASSION". 

of which is her right to her person, and to have 
her feelings, love, and passion respected. And if 
she cannot have this right without law, she should 
have it secured to her by law. Justice and human- 
ity require that wives should be protected against 
the Sexual abuse of their husbands. Men should 
be punished for raping their wives as well as other 
women. 

The right of a woman to decide when and how 
often she shall indulge her sexual love, is a God- 
given right which marrying does not take from her, 
and which should be respected by her husband and 
the laws of the land. 

Often the abuse of sexual love in married life is 
the sole cause of the diseases and poor health 
of wives, their nervousness, fretfulness, and the 
trouble between them and their husbands, and the 
cause of the separation of those who by nature 
are adapted to each other, and who truly love each 
other ; for its abuse as much repels men and women 
in married as in single life. 

In fact, there can be no love, nor even respect, 
and no happiness in marriage where this passion is 
abused. 

But there are greater and more serious evils than 
I have mentioned that are the result of sexual abuse, 
which is, many children are born into the world 
libertines and prostitutes, whom no law nor preach- 
ing can save from a life of shame ! 



THE SEXUAL PASSION, 1$ 

This is an awful crime, for which God will surely 
hold parents responsible. 

Children not only look like their parents, but, 
having the same appetites and passions as their 
parents, they will have the same characters, and 
act like them. 

Hence the children of a thief will steal, and the 
children of the drunkard will drink liquors and be- 
come drunkards, and the children of a prostitute 
will be licentious. 

We have no moral right, although we have a 
legal right, to thus poison the streams of life 
through hereditary descent, and damn our chil- 
dren before they are born, whereby we, in a meas- 
ure, defeat the object of their creation. 

Of such children it is said in the Bible, " They 
are conceived in iniquity and born in sin ; " and, 
" It were better that a millstone was about their 
necks and they were sunk in the deep, than that 
they were born." 

Q ! what a sin and crime it is against children, 
majkind, society, and God, to bring children into 
the w>rld under such circumstances ! Well may 
those guilty of this great crime tremble in view of 
judgment with God, who cannot, and will not, 
suffer it to go unpunished ! 

Will not such children rise up in judgment 
against their parents ? 

There can be no doubt but that a large propor- 



1 6 THE SEXUAL PASSION. 

tion of the vices and crimes of men and women 
are the legitimate fruit and consequence of the 
abuse of the sexual passion in married life. This 
is the principal cause — although unnoticed by 
those trying to suppress vice — of licentious men 
and women, who, when sunken to a certain degree 
in licentiousness, are prepared to commit any and 
all crimes, — murder not excepted. 

Such children, when they become men and 
women, become the wolves and tigers of mankind, 
whom we may chain up and cast into prison, but 
whom no law nor preaching can reform. 

What then is the use to preach against vice and 
crimes, and pray God to help us suppress them, so 
long as there are so many houses in the land that 
are sending out into the world such children to 
prey upon society ! To me, such prayers without 
works seem an insult to God, if not blasphemous. 

It don't matter that the abuse of the sexual pas- 
sion is through ignorance; the effect is the same as 
if those abusing it knew its evil consequence, for 
such ignorance is no excuse with God ; since all 
might, and should, know these tilings. 

The above facts make the bringing children 
into the world a fearful responsibility ; for God 
will hold us responsible for their characters, and 
the consequence of them, since these are decided 
in their mother's womb, by what the mental, 
moral, and physical condition of their parents are 
when the child is begotten. 



THE SEXUAL PASSION, 1 7 

Knowing the evil consequence of sexual abuse 
in married life, when I learn of the fall of a young 
man or woman from the heaven of virtue to the 
hell of licentiousness, before I denounce them, I 
ask, Who is the greater sinner, they or their parents ■? 

Who is the most responsible to God, they who 
only act according to their nature, or their parents 
who transmitted to, and stamped upon, them their 
own natures, appetites, and passions ? 

I have no doubt but that the abuse of the 
sexual passion is the principal cause of heart dis- 
eases, which are fearfully on the increase, and the 
increase of these diseases is in proportion to the 
increase of licentiousness. 

Another great evil of sexual abuse and promis- 
cuous sexual indulgence, is the contraction of the 
most loathsome diseases which flesh is heir to, of 
which I speak in another place in this pamphlet. 
Suffice it to say here, that these horrible diseases 
which eat up men and women before they die, are 
transmitted to children, whom they destroy sooner 
or later. 

I have known many beautiful and most promising 
young men and women, from eighteen to tw T enty, to 
be destroyed with these diseases, which they in- 
herited from their father. Can there be a greater 
crime than this against God and children ? And 
can such a crime go unpunished by God, although 
there are no laws of the land to punish it ? • 

2 



I 8 THE SEXUAL PASSION, 

Nothing is clearer than that the abuse of the 
sexual passion must be stopped, or it will destroy 
all that is beautiful and lovely in men and women, 
and all that is desirable in life, — our homes, 
society, church, and state, and eventually depopu- 
late the earth. 

Believing that the principal cause of the abuse 
of this noble passion is the universal ignorance of 
the people in regard to its nature, and the evil 
consequences of its abuse, and wishing to do 
what I can to suppress its abuse, and to stay 
the dark tidal-wave of its evils, which is sweeping 
over our land and the world, destroying many of 
the fairest women and most intelligent men in 
society, I send forth this pamphlet, hoping and be- 
lieving that it will be the means of snatching, as 
brands from the burning, many of the victims of 
sexual abuse, and save thousands from its evil 
consequences. 

I am satisfied that the true way to stop the 
abuse of sexual love, is, not by trying to undo 
God's work by changing man's nature, which we 
cannot do, but by teaching the people its nature 
and the evil consequence of its abuse, man's duty 
to himself, his fellow-man, and to his God ; the 
fulfilment of which alone can secure the end and 
aim of life-happiness. 

When we teach men how to gratify and control 
their passions, and the evil consequence of their 



THE SEXUAL PASSION. 1 9 

abuse, they will listen to us, and profit by our in- 
struction, while they will not listen to our denunci- 
ation of sexual love, and its gratification ; for this 
passion has more influence over men and women 
for good or evil, than any other passion, or any 
appetite. 

Knowledge and goodness are the only protection 
against vice and crime, and yet, these are not al- 
ways a protection. 

It seems to me that if we spent more time in the 
study of man, as a physical, intellectual, and re- 
ligious being, his nature and mission in life, and 
God's plan of creation, we should be wiser, bet- 
ter, and happier than now, and should find less 
cause for fault-finding that God made the world 
and man as he has. 

We should then understand that God made the 
passions to be indulged and enjoyed in accordance 
with the laws of man's being, which he made, 
when they produce no sin nor evil ; and we should 
also learn, that man's passion must and will be 
gratified in spite of laws and preachings, in ac- 
cordance with, or in violation of, the laws of God 
and man, according to a man's education, and the 
circumstances and influences with which he is sur- 
rounded. 

It is necessary that the sexual passion, as well as 
all others, should be under the control of our 
reason and religious faculties, when they can do no 
harm. 



20 MA STURBA TION, 



MASTURBATION, OR SELF- ABUSE. 

The greatest sin and crime, not only in degree, 
but in extent, of which fallen man is guilty, and 
the most destructive to health and life, to morals 
and manhood, is Masturbation, or self-abuse, which 
is very generally practised by boys and young 
men, and by some older men ! 

And, what is even more alarming is, this horri- 
ble vice is fearfully on the increase ! 

For the reason that it can be practised in secret, 
it is practised far more than common whoredom ; 
and its effects are far more terrible ! 

What is most startling in regard to this vice, is, 
that it is practised as much, if not more, by young 
men of our best families, who move in the best 
society, as by the lower class ! We should have 
less cause for fear and anxiety, if this vice was 
confined to the lower class of boys and young 
men. 

But facts leave us no such consolation, since 
there are but few religious homes of refinement 
that have not these skeletons in it. It is not only 
practised by moral and religious young men, 
through ignorance of its being a great sin, and of 
its awful effect on mind, morals, and body ; but, 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 21 

even by some young men preparing for the Chris- 
tian ministry ! 

This vice is the plague and curse of civilization, 
which not only destroys society and business, but 
it threatens to depopulate the earth. It is one of 
the principal causes of insanity and suicides. 
Talent and learning, and position in society, 
church, and state, seem no protection of young 
men against it. 

It is a vice, which our moral and religious pre- 
scriptions and preaching do not reach, and can- 
not, until it is denounced from the pulpit and 
religious press, and in society and our homes, as 
it should be. The people have no idea of the 
extent of this vice, nor those who practise it, of its 
destruction of morals, mind, and body ! 

And yet, as strange as it may seem, it is never- 
theless true, that notwithstanding it is the sin of 
sins, and vice of vices, and so destructive to vir- 
tue and manhood, to morals and religion, homes 
and society, still, no warning against it comes from 
the pulpit or church ! 

Yea, more ; these not only countenance it by 
their silence, but they are opposed to, and de- 
nounce lectures and the circulation of pamphlets 
on it, which can only be accounted for on the 
ground of their ignorance of the extent of its prac- 
tice, and its awful consequences. What excuse 
can the church and pulpit give to God, and the 



22 MA STURBA TION, 

people, for doing nothing themselves, and for op- 
posing the efforts of others, to suppress this mon- 
ster vice, which destroys tens of thousands of young 
men annually ! 

Is it not strange, that while we spend so much 
time, talent, and money in trying to suppress all 
other vices and crimes, that so little is said against, 
and so little effort is made to suppress this vice of 
vices, and crime of crimes ! 

Society, our homes, morals, and religion, and 
mankind generally, are, to-day, suffering more 
from this vice than from any other ; and yet, but 
little effort is made to suppress it, save by a few 
individuals in the medical profession, who have 
witnessed its sad havoc among young men; and 
they are denounced by those who are the most 
anxious to make the world and mankind better. 

Occasionally, however, we find a clergyman who 
realizes the evil and danger from this vice, and who 
boldly comes to the rescue, and, in no uncertain 
words, earnestly denounces the vice, and warns 
mankind against it. 

Such a clergyman was the Rev. Dr. Adam Clark, 
the great commentator, who spoke thus of this vice : 
"The sin of self-pollution is one of the most des- 
tructive evils practised by fallen man. In many 
respects it is several degrees worse than common 
whoredom, and has in its train more awful con- 
sequences. __ It excites the powers of nature__to 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 2$ 

undue- action, and produces violent secretions, which 
necessarily and speedily exhausts the vital principle 
and energy; hence, the muscles become flaccid and 
feeble, the tone and natural action of the nerves 
relaxed and impeded, the understanding confused, 
the memory oblivious, the judgment perverted, 
the will undetermined and wholly without energy 
to resist ; the eyes appear languishing and without 
expression, and the countenance vacant ; appetite 
ceases, for the stomach is incapable of performing 
its proper office ; nutrition fails ; tremens and fears 
and terrors are generated; and thus the wretched 
victim drags out a miserable existence, till super- 
annuated, even before he arrives at man's estate, with 
a mind often debilitated even to a state of idiotism, 
his worthless body tumbles into the grave, and his 
guilty soul (guilty of self-murder) is hurried into 
the awful presence of its Judge." 

And yet, as well as the doctor has described 
and denounced this vice, he has not told one half, 
nor its worst evils. 

Its march up and down the earth is marked with 
ghostly visages, emaciated, dwarfed forms, sunken 
and glazed eyes, and the idiotic stare and suicides, 
and the graves of its fallen victims, w r hose monu- 
ments are composed of the blasted hopes of broken- 
hearted parents and friends ! 

Through ignorance, and without any warning, 
tens of thousands of boys and young men an- 



24 MAS TURBA TIOW, 

nually start on this road to ruin, many of whom 
will die by their own hands, and the rest die pre- 
maturely, and horrible deaths ! 

Who can gaze unmoved on this despairing, 
motley throng, whose hearts are beating funereal 
marches to the grave! 

The following case, given ( by the celebrated 
French physician, Tissof, is only a fair sample of 
the effects of this vice on its victims : — 

"Mr. C , by profession a watchmaker, had 

been brought up morally, and until the age of six- 
teen had enjoyed a state of perfect health; about 
this time the evil example of a youthful compan- 
ion initiated him into the habit of self-abuse, which 
he repeated daily, even to the extent of two or 
three times, and until the seminal emission was 
followed by a slight insensibility, and a complete 
prostration of the mental and bodily strength ; this 
warning was insufficient to rescue him from his 
disgusting practice, and the repetition of it be- 
came more frequent, till he was in a state which 
gave reason to apprehend a fatal termination. Too 
late a penitent, he had become incurable, and the 
generative organs were so weakened that the slight- 
est irritation caused a partial erection, with an im- 
mediate emission of seed, which, of course, in- 
creased his weakness ; becoming incapacitated, he 
was obliged to relinquish his business. Thus over- 
whelmed with misery and disgrace, he pined for 



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some months without assistance, with the agonizing 
reflection that he was himself the cause of his 
awful situation. 

"I was called to attend him, and found him past 
recovery ; he was meagre, pale, and almost incapa- 
ble of moving ; a palish watery matter issued from 
his nose, and a continual frothing from his mouth. 
He was affected with diarrhoea, and voided his ex- 
crement in bed, without being conscious of it ; he 
had a continual discharge of semen • his eyes were 
fixed and watery, and his pulse low, rapid, and at 
times almost imperceptible. It was with much 
difficulty that he breathed, and he was reduced 
nearly to a skeleton, 

"His mind was equally disorderd, his memory 
was lost, incapable of forming or connecting his 
ideas, in short, without reflection or any sensation 
but pain ; he was reduced far below the brute crea- 
tion, and presented a spectacle hardly possible to 
describe ; he gradually sunk, and for a few days 
prior to his dissolution, which took place in the 
middle of August, he lay in a state of unconscious- 
ness, and was utterly incapable of taking the least 
nourishment." 

There are thousands of boys and young men 
connected with some of the best families in the 
land, who are to-day its victims, although the cause 
of their poor health, pale faces, and strange actions, 
is never suspected by their doting parents. 



26 MA STURBA TION, 

Our schools and colleges are hot-beds of this 
mind, body, and soul destroying sin. I have known 
many of the most promising young men in our col- 
leges, who were the pride and hope of widowed 
mothers, that defrayed their college expenses with 
the toil of their hands by the midnight lamp, to fall 
victims to this cursed sin, and in a few years fill 
suicides' graves. 

Sir Astley Cooper justly remarks in regard to 
these victims, in one of his lectures, that : " If one 
of those miserable cases could be depictured from 
the pulpit as an illustration of the bad effects of a 
vicious and intemperate course of life, it would, I 
think, strike the mind with more terror than all the 
preaching in the world. The irritable state of the 
patient leads to the destruction of life, and in this 
way, annually, great numbers perish. 

" Undoubtedly the list is considerably augmented 
from maltreatment, and the employment of injudi- 
cious remedies. " 

And the late Dr. Pereird, one of the most 
learned physicians of the age,, in reviewing ner- 
vous exhaustion* says : u There is a vast deal of 
injury done, not merely to public morals, but to 
the individual health, by the abuses and excesses 
of the reproductive functions ; the primitive fathers 
and physicians have duly noticed the evils to 
which I allude, and every experienced medical 
practitioner can attest their frequent occurrence. 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 2J 

It is all very well for sentimentalist and the mock- 
modest to declaim against the notice of them ; 
but justice, morality, and the preservation of health, 
as well as the perpetuation of the human race, 
demand it. Such, however, is the hypocrisy of the 
day, that even a notice in a dead language is con- 
demned by the ignorant and intolerant, who are 
unable to appreciate the importance of the sub- 
ject." This is a bold step in the right direction. 

A knowledge of this vice, its vast extent, and 
fearful consequences, have induced me to lecture 
and write for years against it, and to send out this 
pamphlet, hoping thereby to save a few of the vast 
multitude of young men, who are annually lost in 
this great maelstrom of destruction. 

As I listen to theii sighs and fearful groans, and 
idiotic ravings, my heart goes out to God in prayer 
for power to save them ! 

And it is a great satisfaction to know, as I do, 
that I have been the means of saving many from 
insanity, suicide, and death. This knowledge is a 
source of perpetual joy to me, and affords me hap- 
piness which money can neither give nor take 
away ; for I love to do good, as well as to get good. 

The mental sufferings of the man with delirium 
tremens, with snakes in his boots, and pursued by 
devils, is awful ! 

But this suffering is nothing to those of the vic- 
tims of this terrible sin ! They are not only pur- 



2 8 MA STURBA TION, 

sued by venomous reptiles, but by fiends and fiery 
scorpions of hell, who not only get into their 
boots, but into their brains and souls ! 

This vice, sooner or later, diseases the whole sys- 
tem, causing indigestion and nervous diseases, and 
diseases of the liver, lungs, and bowels, constipa- 
tion, spinal diseases, impurities of the blood, erup- 
tions on the face, and other diseases ; weak and 
painful eyes, dark specks before them ; and is one 
of the principal causes of diseases of the heart, 
with which so many die daily ; and of the brain 
with nervous headaches, loss of memory, dread of 
society, and love of solitude ; epilepsy, paralysis, 
debility, despondency, inertia, insanity, idiotism, 
and suicide. 

Often there is a weight and distress in the 
stomach, congestion in the head, causing a bad 
feeling in it, and drowsiness, inability to think, 
irregular pulse, and wind, or gas in the stomach 
and bowels, constipation, and diarrhoea; yet, the 
individual having these symptoms never thinks 
the cause of these troubles is the effect of self- 
abuse. 

Its victims lose flesh, although they eat heartily, 
both because their stomach is unable to digest 
what they eat, and because of the loss of semen, 
which is the life of the blood. They become sen- 
sitive to the cold, their complexion becomes sal- 
low, with blue circles under the eyes, and their 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 2() 

voice- becomes almost like a woman's, and all man- 
liness is lost. 

Sooner or later involuntary loss of semen com- 
mences, which increases as the disease advances ; 
the skin becomes a pale yellow, the eyes retreat 
into the sockets and become dull ; the muscles 
become flabby ; the energy fails, and they become 
weary from the least exertion. 

At times there is a weakening of the legs, which 
is a symptom of approaching paralysis, and the 
gait becomes heavy and dragging. No one per- 
son has all of these symptoms, but only some of 
them, since all are not affected alike by this vice. 
Some even retain their good appearance, and red 
cheeks, for a long time, owing to a strong consti- 
tution ; but sooner or later, they must succumb to 
the diseases self-abuse produces, which are work- 
ing unseen upon the vital organs, when they will 
begin to feel weak by spells, have fears, and spells 
of despondency, which may result in insanity and 
suicide. 

They frequently experience chills and hot 
flashes, and more or less suffocating feelings at 
times ; and palpitation of the heart on exercising 
quickly, such as running, or going quickly up- 
stairs, showing that the heart has become affected ; 
while their sleep is disturbed by fearful dreams, 
and severe beating of the heart by spells, which 
are increased during the day by violent exercise, 
and any excitement. 



3 O MA STURBA TION. 

There is generally more or less confusion of the 
mind, and a sense of heaviness in the head, and 
sometimes a buzzing in the ears. 

Young men afflicted with spermatorrhoea, or in- 
voluntary loss of semen, generally, but not always, 
become languid, effeminate, pusillanimous, and 
the power of volition is very much weakened, and 
they are easily excited ; and there is a lack of 
firmness ; and although they have the best of in- 
tentions, they are unable to carry them out, while 
in the advanced stage of the vice the power of 
volition, or will, fails, and is entirely destroyed. 

At this stage of their trouble, they avoid the 
society of women, whom they cannot look in the 
face, and they prefer solitude, where despondency 
and melancholy consume them. 

They are constantly thinking of themselves, and 
their disease and shame, and watch their urine and 
stools, and every symptom they have. 

Their memory becomes impaired, and persons 
with high intellectual powers lose the vivacity of 
their imagination, and their acute and discriminat- 
ing power, and their reasoning faculties become 
weak. 

As I have said, sooner or later self-abuse results 
in seminal weakness, and involuntary loss of 
semen, which is the essence of the blood, one 
ounce of which is equal to forty ounces of blood. 
Such a draft on the body soon incapacitates men 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 3 I 

for business and pleasure, destroys the morals, 
conscience, and mind, and wastes away their 
lives. 

In the advanced stage of the diseased condition 
of their bodies, the semen is lost at stool, and with 
the urine, which may continue for years before 
noticed. Frequently the result of this vice is im- 
potency and sterility. Sometimes the impotency 
takes place in youth and early manhood, but often 
not until middle age. It is very common for it to 
result in such weakenings of the generative organs, 
even when impotency is not complete, that the 
semen is discharged in the attempt of the sexual 
embrace, or so soon as it is commenced, which 
ends the embrace, to the great dissatisfaction and 
disgust of both parties, but especially of the wife, 
who keenly feels the deception of such a victim of 
self-abuse passing himself upon her as a man ! 

In other cases, the erections are so weak and of 
so short duration as to prevent the embrace. 

Of course, this condition of a man unfits him 
for the pleasures and enjoyments of domestic life, 
and from being a husband and father ; which makes 
him feel that he is no man. and therefore is un- 
worthy of, and cannot command the love, or even 
respect of women, and of a wife. Instead of a 
wife loving such an apology for a man and hus- 
band, who has thus deceived her into marriage, 
she is repulsed* by him, and loathes and despises 



32 MASTURBATION, 

him • not so much because he cannot satisfy her 
passion, as because he is no man. 

Such a condition of a man is considered by the 
laws of all the States as a good and sufficient 
cause for a divorce; since no justice of God or 
man, requires, much less compels, an innocent woman 
to live with such a man, and sjiare his degradation 
arid shame, when he has sunk himself below the 
brute creation ! 

What a great sin and wrong it would be, to com- 
pel a noble woman to sacrifice all the pleasures of 
matrimony and joys of home, and of a mother, and 
to waste her precious life with, and share the mis- 
ery of such a man! 

There is no mocking more deep, and no dis- 
appointment more keen, and no cup more bitter, . 
than is felt by an affectionate, true wife, and noble 
woman, for a man and husband, the mere wreck of 
sensualism, and the horrible skeleton of a victim 
of self- abuse ! 

And yet, when those land pirates who, calling 
themselves doctors, and by advertising to cure all 
such weaknesses, and other private diseases ', live by 
robbing the poor, God-forsaken victims of this vice, 
have got all the money they can from them, they 
advise them to marry, and assure them, that by 
freely indulging their sexual passion with a wife, 
the involuntary loss of semen will stop : just as 
though loss in that way was not injurious. 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 33 

That marrying is not a remedy for involuntary 
emissions, is evident from the fact that many 
married men have them. 

Marrying is the worst thing victims of this vice 
can do; since it greatly increases and intensifies 
their own misery, by exposing their sin and shame 
to a wife, whereby she is made to share their mis- 
ery. None but those entirely destitute of all honor 
and moral principle, could be guilty of advising 
those thus suffering the torments of hell, to do 
such an unjust and wicked thing ! Let every young 
man beware of such fiends in human forms, and 
shun them as they would a venomous serpent; for 
their advice and treatment is worse than nothing. 

Such young men marry ! They better commit 
suicide, which would be a less crime in the sight 
of God ! What must be the feelings of a young 
wife on learning that her husband, whom she be- 
lieved to be a pure, virtuous, noble young man, 
w r orthy of her love and life, is the victim of the 
lowest vice, with a diseased body, wrecked mind 
and morals, and on the verge of insanity and the 
grave ! 

Can a wife thus deceived, love, or even respect 
such a creature ? 

She is compelled, by her nature, to despise and 
loathe him, as she does a slimy serpent, and would 
as soon submit to the embrace of one as the other. 

Then young men, never^ as you hope for the par- 
3 



34 MASTURBATION, 

don of God, be induced to marry, and involve in 
your misery an innocent girl, while you are suffer- 
ing from the effects of this vice ! Be cured and 
then marry. 

Impotency, which is usually the result of self- 
abuse in youth, or the excessive sexual indulgence 
with women, is the greatest misfortune that can 
happen to a man, especially to a married man. 

There are but few women who are sufficiently 
endowed with honor and moral principle to resist 
year after year this strong temptation to infidelity 
to their marriage relation. It not only prevents 
sexual enjoyment, which, in marriage, is not only a 
pleasure, but a duty, binding together more strong- 
ly husband and wife, by increasing their love for 
each other, but it excites the jealousy of husbands, 
and makes a man feel more meanly than if guilty 
of whoredom. 

A husband thus diseased, feels he cannot com- 
mand the love nor respect of his wife, who can 
never be satisfied, but must be disgusted with such 
an apology for a man and husband. A wife could 
easier forgive almost any imperfection of a hus- 
band's character than this condition of him. Noth- 
ing else is more disgusting to a wife, and more 
excites her hatred, than to have her passions ex- 
cited without being satisfied. Therefore, nothing 
else is so strong a temptation for her to seek other 
men's society, and is so trying to her virtue, as to 
have her husband thus afflicted. 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 35 

The temptation is not so much from sexual 
desire, as because she feels her husband, in this 
condition, is not a man she can look up to, respect, 
and love. 

The strongest love of a wife for her husband 
will wane under such circumstances. 

And a weakness in the generative organs of a 
man, which is usually the result of youthful sexual 
abuse, that causes an emission of semen from sexual 
excitement, before the commencement or comple- 
tion of the sexual embrace, is equally dissatisfac- 
tory and disgusting to a wife. 

Such a diseased condition of a husband is 
deemed by some of the wisest and best men, a 
sufficient cause for a divorce, which opinion is ex- 
pressed in the laws and courts of trie land ; for it 
is very unjust to compel a woman to live with a 
man she can neither love nor respect. 

Impotency, therefore, is the last crowning scourge of 
sexual abuse, which requires the best skill, and most 
experience of the medical profession to remove, while 
the treatment should be commenced when its first 
symptoms appear, such as deficient sexual desire 
and enjoyment, and imperfect erections, which are 
of a short duration, and a premature ejection of 
semen, and a cold sensation in the penis. 

There should be no delay in the treatment, since 
every month's delay diminishes the chances of a 
cure ; and what is worse, endangers a wife's virtue 



3^ MASTURBA TION, 

and honor, and makes more certain the loss of 
her respect and love. 

In fact, many husbands and wives are estranged 
from these troubles, and finally separate, who under 
natural circumstances would be true and affection- 
ate to each other. Therefore no man who prizes 
his wife's virtue and love, and his own happiness, 
should delay treatment for such diseases, nor leave 
any means untried, no matter at what cost, to be 
cured and restored to manhood, since pleasure, 
character, love, and fidelity depend on an imme- 
diate cure. 

And yet, a false pride and sense of shame pre- 
vent many men, with these symptoms, and with 
impotency, from consulting a physician until it is 
too late for a cure. 

Away with such a pride, and dare do your duty. 

The loss of health and destruction of the body 
by this vice, is sad ; but the loss of manhood, 
mind, morals, virtue, and character, is much sad- 
der ! This vice is not only more destructive to 
health and life, but it is more degrading, and sinks 
men lower in depravity, than common whoredom. 
Nothing else so completely wrecks the whole man, 
and destroys every holy love and noble aspiration 
of the soul, as this evil. 

But one of the most lamentable and saddest 
effects of this horrible vice is, it incapacitates its 
victims for matrimony, the end and aim of every 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 37 

true man and woman \ and for the pure love of a 
wife, and an appreciation of her, and of the God- 
appointed mission of woman in life, on whom its 
pleasures and happiness more depend than on 
anything else ! 

No greater misfortune can happen to a man, 
than such a loss of his manhood, that he has no 
desire for, nor enjoyment of, the society of woman ! 

As I have elsewhere said, the loss of semen 
soon diseases and destroys mind and body. A 
celebrated Roman physician says of it: " If noctur- 
nal emissions continue any length of time, the neces- 
sary consequences are co?isumption and death, for the 
most balsamic part of the humor and animal 
spirits is dissipated ; the whole body falls away, 
and particularly the back; the patients become 
feeble, dry, and pale ; they languish in slow, mel- 
ancholy agony." 

The remedy for this vice is to teach boys and 
young men it is a great sin and crime, and its aw- 
ful effect on body and mind. 

We should do all we can to save those who are 
so unfortunate as to be addicted to its practice, and 
do more to save the boys and youth of the present 
and future generations from the practice, which 
can only be done by lectures and the distribution 
of pamphlets on the subject; and hence it is the 
duty of every person, especially of parents, Chris- 
tians, and our religious teachers, to do all they can 



38 MAS TURBA TIOM, 

to secure lectures, and distribute pamphlets on this 
horrible vice. 

In this way more can be done for morals and 
religion, than by all the preaching in the land, — 
unless the clergy preach against this sin of sins, 
and vice of vices. 

It is noble and God-like to raise the fallen ; but, 
it is more noble and more God-like to keep men 
and women from falling. Preventives are better 
and much cheaper than cures. The whitest paper 
is that which was never soiled ; so the best man 
is one who was never a bad man. 

The first step necessary to save the victims of 
this vice, is to stop self-abuse. Therefore, young 
man and boy, if you are the victim of this vile 
practice, repent, and be determined that, by the 
assistance of God, you will stop it, and never 
practise it again. And pledge yourself to God 
that you will do all in your power to redeem your- 
self, and to restore the wrong and injury you have 
done to your body, mind, and soul ! 

It is not enough to restore your health, that you 
stop the practice • but you must have the assist- 
ance of the best medical treatment. 

Don't think if you stop the practice you will be 
restored to health without medical assistance, and 
thus delay treatment until it is too late to save 
you, for that is a fatal delusion. 

On this idea the celebrated Dr. Lallemand says : 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 39 

"Many diseases, when left to themselves, work 
their own cure, providing only they be not exas- 
perated by the imprudence of the patient. But 
this is not the case with spermatorrhoea ; chiefly, 
perhaps, because the effects produced by the dis- 
ease itself are favorable to the increase of invol- 
untary discharges. The natural tendency of this 
disease to become aggravated, as the result of its 
own effects, frequently leads to a fatal termination. 
Such patients generally die in an attack of syn- 
cope — a disease of the heart — that follows con- 
gestion of the brain." 

"In this way such of the insane as have fallen 
into a state of dementia usually expire. Many die 
from diseases (as consumption, etc.) aggravated 
and inflamed by unsuspected spermatorrhoea ; the 
symptoms are treated by the physician, but the 
great cause, spermatorrhoea, remains unsuspected 
and untouched." 

The second step necessary for a cure of this 
disease, is to consult a physician experienced in the 
treatment of these diseases, whom you know is an 
educated, physician, by his treating all kinds of 
diseases, and by his reputation. 

But it is no use to consult a general practitioner 
or family physician — as they are called — who 
has had no experience in treating these diseases. 

Consulting a physician is what but few young 
men addicted to self-abuse are willing to do, until 



40 MA STURBA TION, 

they are on the verge of the grave or insanity, on 
account of ihe/ears the disease engenders, and the 
shame they feel. 

They think they will consult a physician, whose 
services Obey feel they need ; but it is hard work to 
get up courage to do so. 

They often start to consult a physician, and per- 
haps get to the door of his office, when their cour- 
age fails them and they go away ; especially if 
they hear some one talking with the doctor. 

But young men, since your health, mind', happi- 
ness, and life, depend on your successful medical 
treatment, and the commencement of it before it 
is too late to save you, you must not turn frackwhen 
on your way to consult a physician ; nor delay in 
consulting one. 

But don't consult, and throw away your money, 
time, and lives, on any of the thousand and one 
quack physicians, who advertise to treat only pri- 
vate diseases ; for they are no physicians, nor even 
educated men. Most of them are lazy, unprin- 
cipled men, from the lower walks of life, who live 
and grow rich by robbing the victims of sexual 
abuse and other private diseases. 

Such men are after your money, and when they 
have got all they can of you, they leave you to die, 
and tell you all men have involuntary emissions 
of semen occasionally, as it is natural for them to ; 
since, if they did not, there would be too much ac- 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 4 1 

cumulation of semen in the testicles, causing much 
enlargement of them. Such a statement is not 
only false, but it is positive evidence that the man 
who makes it is an ignoramus, a knave, or a fool. 
No healthy man ever had an involuntary emission 
of semen. And it is impossible for there to be a 
large secretion of semen in the testicles at any 
one time, since there is no secretion of semen ex- 
cept under sexual excitement, and then it is usually 
ejected in a natural, or unnatural way. 

Fathers, what have you done to save your sons 
from the horrible vice of self-abuse and its awful 
consequences, which may be the result of your 
bringing them into the world with unnaturally 
strong sexual passions, as the consequence of the 
abuse of your sexual passion before they were born? 

Have you talked with them in regard to this 
vice? told them of its awful consequence, and 
warned them against it? If you have neglected 
so important a duty, and hence suffered your son 
to commence this vile practice through ignorance, 
and to go blindfolded to ruin and death, will not 
God require his blood at your hands ? And how 
will you answer the call of God for your ruined or 
dead son ? And how quiet the lashings of a guilty 
conscience ! When a young man thus falls, I ask, 
Who is the greatest sinner, he or his parents ? 

It is more than probable that, in consequence 
of your abuse of your sexual passion, and neglect 



42 MA S TURBA TION", 

of duty, your own dear son, the idol of your heart, 
and the hope of your declining years, is to-day the 
victim of self-abuse, and well on the way to ruin 
and death ! Let not another day pass before you 
know if your son is addicted to this practice, and 
if he is, remember it is your duty to put him under 
the best medical treatment immediately, and to do 
all in your power to save him, and restore his 
health and constitution, and thus atone, in some 
measure, for the great wrong you have done him, 
in transmitting to him a sexual disease ! 

And, young man, if through ignorance you are 
the victim of self-abuse and spermatorrhoea, which 
is the most unpardonable sin and vice ever com- 
mitted by fallen man, that makes you despise 
yourself, and despised by all mankind, who know 
your guilt, repent in sack-cloth and ashes, stop it, 
and do all in your power to restore your health and 
manhood ! 

This is your first duty, which you owe to your- 
self, to your friends, to society, and especially to 
the father who begot you, and the mother who bore 
you, and to your God ! Think what would be the 
feelings and heartaches of your dear mother if she 
knew of your vice and crime ! 

It would break her heart to know that her 
ei dear boy " was guilty of such a vice, and send her 
with sorrow to the grave ! 

Consult, immediately, the most experienced physi- 



OR SELF-ABUSE. 43 

cian in the treatment of this disease, since the 
delay of a month may render your case incurable ; 
and thus do all you can to restore the injury you 
have done yourself. 

It is as necessary to a cure of spermatorrhoea, 
that the diseases it has caused, such as diseases of 
the brain and nerves, of the heart, liver and stom- 
ach, and constipation, be treated and cured, as 
the spermatorrhoea which caused them. 

Each of these diseases must be treated with skill 
and appropriate remedies, in order to cure them. 
And without these are cured, spermatorrhoea 
cannot be cured. Therefore, such patients should 
consult a physician who treats all diseases^ and who 
is experienced in the treatment of chronic diseases 
— since these diseases are chronic — instead of 
throwing away their time and money on quacks, 
who know nothing of the human system, nor of 
diseases and medicine. 

Forr years, I have done all I could, by lectures 
and writing, to save young men from this horrible 
vice, and its awful consequences ; and hence, 
when I receive letters from young men, or they 
tell me in my office, saying, "Doctor, you have 
saved me from self-abuse, ruin, and suicide, and 
therefore I owe you a debt of gratitude I can 
never pay ; but God will reward you ;" I feel I 
have not labored in vain, and I am encouraged to 
persevere in the great object of my life, to relieve 



44 MA S TURBA TION+ 

human suffering, and make mankind wiser, better 
and happier for my having lived ! 

This thought will ever be an oasis on the jour- 
ney of my life, to which I shall joyfully turn in 
the dark hours of adversity, and when the praise 
of men shall be desired and prized no more. 

The monument I would have to save my name 
from oblivion, and to keep green my memory, is 
the eternal gratitude oi my fellow-men, whose suffer- 
ings I have relieved, and whose tears I have dried ! 

Such a monument will endure and grow brighter 
and brighter, when monuments of brass and mar- 
ble shall have crumbled into dust ! I am not only 
willing to labor for the good of mankind while I 
live, and desirous to leave the world better than I 
found it, which should be the object of every one, 
but I am desirous to help on the noble work of 
humanity when the green grass of the valley shall 
wave above my grave. 

Therefore, I leave to mankind this and other 
pamphlets and books, that being dead I may yet 
speak to men, and warn them against all sin, vice, 
and crimes, and persuade them to live virtuous, 
noble lives ! 

My greatest ambition is to so live, that the most 
appropriate inscription on my tombstone shall be : 

He lived to do good. 



All consultations and correspondence, 
strictly confidential, and free. 



SEXUAL DISEASES, 45 



SEXUAL DISEASES. 

Some of the worst evils of the abuse of the sex- 
ual passion, and of promiscuous indulgence, are 
gonorrhoea and syphilis, diseases that are more de- 
structive to the constitution and health, and the 
cause of more evil and suffering, than any other 
diseases to which flesh is heir, since they are con- 
tagious, and are transmitted from parents to chil- 
dren, whose health and life they destroy. 

And what is most startling is, these diseases are 
fearfully on the increase, as is licentiousness, with 
which they keep pace. It may seem strange and 
incredible, that these diseases are found among 
every class in society, which shows a lamentable 
laxity of morals and much easy virtue ; but never- 
theless it is true. 

It is true that but few, comparatively speaking, 
of those who are given to licentiousness, have 
syphilis, but a large portion of this class do have 
gonorrhoea. 

Gonorrhoea. 

This disease is contracted by sexual intercourse 
with a person who has the disease, and may appear 
in a few hours after exposure, or a few days, and 



46 GONORRHCEA. 

in some cases it does not appear for weeks ; but 
usually the first symptom appears in from two to 
five days after exposure. It commences with a 
tingling sensation at the external opening of the 
urethra, which is soon succeeded by an itching and 
then a pain. In two or three days the orifice of 
the urethra becomes red and swollen, and a slight 
discharge commences. 

As the inflammation increases, the swelling and 
discharge increases, and there is soon a burning, 
scalding sensation in passing urine, until urination 
become frequent and very painful ; and soon walk- 
ing causes pain; the erections becomes frequent 
and very painful. 

Owing to the severe inflammation, the urethra 
becomes contracted and the stream of urine is 
small and divided. 

Often Couper's glands become involved, as do 
the testicles, which increases the suffering. Under 
good treatment, which can only be had from a sci- 
entific, experienced physician, the symptoms can 
be removed in from one to two weeks. But in the 
hands of quacks the disease becomes chronic and 
results in gleet, — a discharge from the urethra 
that may continue by spells for months or a year. 

Men may have all the symptoms of gonorrhoea 
from a poisonous lencorrhcea of a woman, and from 
a cold in the penis, and from other causes. In 
consequence of the ignorance of the medical and 



GONORRHOEA . 47 

legal professions of the fact that a husband may 
contract leucorrhcea of his wife which causes all 
the symptoms of gonorrhoea, many innocent wives 
have been disgraced and divorced on the ground 
that she has been unfaithful to her husband, and 
contracted and given him gonorrhoea, than which, 
nothing was more false, cruel, and unjust. The 
disgracing and divorcing of a wife is too serious a 
matter to be done upon anything but positive proof 
of infidelity to her marriage relation. 

Gonorrhoea has been considered merely a local 
disease, simply an inflammation of the mucous 
membrane of the urethra, and hence of but little 
account ; whereas, it diseases the blood, and may 
remain in the system for years, or for life. 

It not only causes other diseases, but it fre- 
quently causes deformities of the penis for life, 
and severe strictures that can never be cured, 
which makes it a very serious disease. The idea 
that gonorrhoea is merely a local disease has been 
exploded by some of the most eminent French and 
German physicians, who have made the study and 
treatment of private diseases a specialty all their 
lives. 

They now tell us that gonorrhoea is a venereal 
disease of the blood, of which fact I became con- 
vinced, and advocated, some ten or fifteen years 
before its announcement by these physicians. 

The fact that persons having gonorrhoea often 



48 SEXUAL DISEASES. 

have buboes, and sore throat, mouth, nose, and 
eyes, is positive evidence that it is a virus in the 
blood which is seldom cured. Not because it can- 
not be cured, but because it is treated as a local 
disease, by physicians who do not understand it. 
It is generally treated as simply an inflammation 
of the urethra, and when that is removed, and the 
discharges are stopped, it is pronounced cured ; 
whereas, the virus remains in the system, produc- 
ing constitutional difficulties, chronic diseases, such 
as diseases of the kidneys, bladder, prostate gland, 
and testicles ; while it deranges the stomach, liver, 
and bowels. 

Yet none suffering from these troubles ever 
suspect, nor do their physician, that the cause of 
them is gonorrhoea, or syphilis, which they have 
had at some time. 

Therefore, it would be well when persons con- 
sult a physician in regard to any chronic disease, 
if they have ever had these diseases, to tell him, 
as he does not like to ask them such a question. 
For it makes a great difference in the- prognosis 
and treatment of any disease, whether or not it is 
caused by either of these diseases. 

To illustrate. While a common case of rheuma- 
tism, or paralysis, is curable, such diseases in 
some cases, if caused by these diseases, might be 
incurable. 

If these diseases were caused by gonorrhoea or 



GONORRHCEA. 49 

syphilis, they would require different treatment 
from common cases of these diseases. 

Besides, during a few weeks' or months' delay 
in the physician's knowledge of such cause of 
rheumatism and paralysis, it might pass into an 
incurable stage, while they might have been cured 
had he understood the cause in the commencement 
of the treatment. 

Men addicted to promiscuous sexual indulgence 
with women, have an idea that they can prevent 
taking diseases of them by washing the penis in 
soap and water, or some strong liquor, immediately 
after cohabiting ; but that will not prevent taking 
a disease, as hundreds who have tried it can tes- 
tify. The reason that washing is not a prevent- 
ive,* is because the virus is absorbed into the 
blood through the pores of the penis before the 
embrace is completed. 

The idea that washing is a preventive of sexual 
disease, may have had its origin in the fact that one 
man washed immediately after sexual intercourse 
and did not take any disease, while another man 
having intercourse with the same woman who did 
not wash, took a disease. 

Such a case is no proof that washing is of any 
benefit, since it is a common thing that different 
men having intercourse with the same woman, at 
the same time, some take a disease while others do 
not. 



50 SEXUAL DISEASES. 

And some men may become affected by the 
leucorrhcea of their wives, while other men are 
not affected by their wives' leucorrhcea. 

And a woman may contract gonorrhoea of one 
man, and give it to another man who has inter- 
course with her soon after, before she knows she 
has it, or she has any symptoms of it. 

But as a matter of cleanliness every man and 
woman, even husbands and wives, should wash 
themselves immediately after cohabiting. 

The only sure way to avoid gonorrhoea and 
syphilis, is to avoid exposure to them, by living a 
pure, virtuous life, which gives far greater happi- 
ness, without any danger, than the moment's pleas- 
ure of sexual gratification, even if there was no 
danger of a loathsome disease, as there is. 

Syphilis, or Pox. 

This is a much worse disease than gonorrhoea, 
which I have just described. In fact, it is the 
worst and most loathsome disease that a man can 
have. 

This disease, like gonorrhoea, is generally con- 
tracted by sexual intercourse with a man or woman 
who has it. But it may be transmitted from one 
person to another, by dressing syphilitic sores, by 
kissing and inhaling the breath of those who may 
have a syphilitic sore throat, mouth, or nose ; and 
by a child nursing a woman who has syphilis, and 



SYPHILIS. 5 1 

by one woman using a syringe that has been used 
by another woman who has this disease. 

The infection may also be transmitted by using 
glasses, spoons, and tobacco pipes; and also by 
surgical instruments, lancets, which have been used ' 
on persons who have syphilis, and from water 
closets, and by sleeping in the sheets where one 
having the disease has slept and left matter from 
the sores on him. And I have known instances 
of its being transmitted by physicians using a 
syringe in confinement of a woman who had syphilis, 
and then using the same syringe with another 
woman in confinement. Such recklessness and 
tampering with health and life by any physician, 
cannot be too severely condemned. 

No woman should use a syringe that has been 
used by another woman, much less should a physi- 
cian use the same syringe for all women he may 
attend. 

While syphilis may be transmitted as above, 
men are much more likely to contract it of a woman 
than from a water-closet, or any of the other means. 

The first symptoms of this disease are very sim- 
ilar to those of gonorrhoea, viz. : itching, burning 
and inflammation of the head of the penis, within 
from three to eight days after exposure ; yet, 
these symptoms may not appear for weeks after- 
ward. 

Soon after the above symptoms appear, a small, 



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red spot appears on the foreskin, or head of the 
penis, at the point where the virus was absorbed, 
on which a small ulcer, or chancre, appears, from 
which pus, or matter, soon commences discharg- 
ing. 

The small ulcers soon become a large, eating 
sore, which often partially, and sometimes entirely 
destroys the penis. 

In secondary syphilis, these ulcers and sores may 
appear on any part of the body, but they oftener 
appear on the face, and particularly on or in the 
nose and throat. In time the lymphatic and ingui- 
nal glands become affected, and when they sup- 
purate they are called buboes. Sometimes the 
buboes do not appear for several weeks, and may 
not until the chancres are healed. Buboes appear 
most frequently in the groins ; but they may appear 
under the chin, or in front of the ears, from chan- 
cres on the lips or tongue. 

Constitutional syphilis generally, but not always, 
makes its appearance in cutaneous eruptions, in a 
few weeks or months. If the disease is not cured 
in the first stage, as it seldom is, it passes to the 
second, or chronic stage, called Secondary Syphilis. 
Often the first symptom of this stage of the disease 
is a paleness of the patient, and swelling of the 
lymphatic glands, especially on the neck, with shift- 
ing pains of a rheumatic, or neuralgic nature, 
cutaneous eruptions, falling off of the hair, and 



SYPHILIS. 53 

headaches; with heat and burning in the head, 
and pains in the shoulders, arms, back, legs, and 
knees, with excessive languor, weariness, restless- 
ness, sleeplessness, indigestion, bad stomach, 
coated or clean red tongue, despondency, or low 
spirits, sore throat, thirst, constipation, hot skin, 
with more or less moisture ; quick pulse, sediment 
in urine, and sometimes burning when urinating, 
diseased liver, with yellowish complexion, a dread 
of business, and a desire for rest and quiet. The 
soft palate, tonsils, uvula, pharynx and larynx, 
become diseased, causing a burning sensation in 
the fauces, hoarseness, hawking, and cough, with 
dryness in the mouth and throat, and an affection 
of the voice. 

Often the disease appears on the face and nose, 
which it destroys, as it does the roof of the 
mouth. In time ulcers and sores appear on the 
legs and body, and eat up the patients, even before 
they die. There is no other disease that so com- 
pletely destroys the system before the patient dies 
as this, which is owing to the fact that the vital 
organs are the last attacked by it. 

This seems a judgment of God for licentious- 
ness, that the victims of this horrible disease shall 
live and suffer until they have drained the last 
drop of the bitter cup of their damnation ! 

Often the sufferings of patients in the last stage 
of this disease are unendurable, compelling them 
to beg to be killed to end their misery! 



54 SEXUAL DISEASES* 

It does seem to me, that if men and women 
could witness the suffering of the dying, God for- 
saken victims of this disease, and listen to their 
groans, nothing could tempt them, and especially 
the mere momentary gratification of the sexual 
passion, to expose themselves and their children 
to this terrible disease ! Perhaps the reason peo- 
ple with this disease live so long and suffer so 
much, is because of the great sin and crime of 
transmitting it to innocent children ! 

The virus of these diseases may remain in the 
system from one to fifty years, and then break out 
like pent up hell-fire as it is, and consume its vic- 
tims. And this brings me to another and greater 
evil of these diseases than I have yet mentioned. 

While the suffering from syphilis, and the de- 
struction of the body by it, are awful, the crime of 
transmitting it to children is more awful ! 

Syphilis; Its Transmission to Children. 

This is the greatest sin and crime against 
children, humanity, and God, of which man can be 
guilty ! and yet there is no law of the land for its 
punishment. 

What moral right have men to thus poison the 
streams of life through hereditary descent, and 
transmit this loathsome disease to innocent chil- 
dren, which unfits them for the pleasures and duties 
of life, especially for matrimony, while they do live, 



SYPHILIS. 55 

and finally sends them to an untimely grave by the 
worst disease of which man ever died ? 

Can such a sin and crime go unpunished with a 
just and righteous God on the throne of the uni- 
verse I 

Men have a legal right to thus damn their chil- 
dren before they are born, and to kill them. 
But, it is a satisfaction to know that if they escape 
punishment at the hands of men, they cannot 
escape the punishment of God. 

Will not such children, who have been so 
wronged, rise up in judgment against their parents ? 
We have laws for the punishment of scattering 
contagious diseases, and we should have laws for 
the punishment of this greatest crime of trans- 
mitting this disease to children. 

Men having this disease in their blood should 
be prohibited by law from marrying, until they 
shall have been examined by, and can present a 
certificate of cure from an honorable physician of 
a high medical reputation, who shall be appointed 
by the governor of the State, in every city and 
large town for that purpose, while the transmission 
of it to a child should be punished by imprison- 
ment for life. 

There is more danger to mankind from this 
disease, the virus of which runs in the blood of so 
many men and women, than from all other diseases 
flesh is heir to. 



S6 SEXUAL DISEASES. 

And yet, what is the church and state doing 
to save mankind from it ? Instead of furnishing 
means for printing and circulating pamphlets, 
and for lectures on this subject, as they should, 
since this is the only remedy for vice and its evil 
consequences, they denounce everything said and 
written on this subject. 

O, consistency! to spend so much time and 
money in preaching against, and for the suppres- 
sion of common evils, sins, and crimes, and to save 
fallen women ; and suffer this, the greatest sin and 
crime man can be guilty of, to go unrebuked. 

None but physicians, and only a few of them, 
have any idea as to what extent the poison of 
syphilis runs in the veins of the present generation. 
It truly threatens the destruction of the human 
race ; and yet, who are alarmed ? and where is the 
excitement that is usually manifested at the ap- 
pearance in our cities of a common epidemic, or 
contagious disease, like small-pox, or cholera? 

I have known some of the fairest and most 
promising young men and women in society to be 
destroyed at the age of eighteen and twenty by 
this terrible disease, which they inherited from 
their parents. It is hard for the young to die 
under any circumstances, when their hearts are full 
of hope and anticipation; but it is horrible for 
them to be killed by their own parents, and by 
such a disease. 



SYPHILIS. 57 

The crime next in degree to transmitting this 
disease to children, is that of giving it to an inno- 
cent, virtuous wife. 

God only knows how many wives are to-day suf- 
fering and dying from this disease, which they have 
taken from licentious husbands ; or how many are 
annually thus sent to the grave ! 

Little do such wives think that the disease for 
which they are doctoring, and which causes them 
so much suffering, is a disease contracted from their 
husbands, which fact, physicians are sworn to keep 
a secret, and to call by some other name. 

What is a just punishment for such a wrong and 
injury to a wife ? 

The way of the transgressor is hard, yet it is 
just ; but to make the innocent suffer for the vices 
and crimes of the wicked, is the greatest wrong 
and injustice of which man can be guilty. 

Fathers, who have brought children into the 
world with syphilitic poison in their blood, remem- 
ber that your first duty to your children is to put 
them under medical treatment, so soon as you 
know they can, and have inherited it from you ? 
and continue the treatment at any cost, until they 
are free from all taint of it; and thus do all in 
your power, to repair the injury you have done 
their bodies, and the great wrong you have done 
their minds and souls, and to save them from the 
sufferings and awful death to which you have 



58 SEXUAL DISEASES. 

doomed them by transmitting this disease to 
them ! 

The discharge of this duty is demanded by your 
children, society, and your God ; and woe to you 
if you neglect it ! 

This is your first duty ; and your next is to have 
this virus removed from your own system before 
your transmit it to other children. 

The cure of these diseases, as with all others, 
depends on having them treated right, and in sea- 
son; since they are incurable when they have 
reached a certain stage. 

Every month of delay in its treatment, the 
liarder, and more expensive is its cure, and the 
less are the chances for a radical cure. 

It is not probable that one case in a hundred of 
these diseases is cured ; not because they cannot 
be, but because those having them generally go to 
quacks who advertise to cure only private diseases, 
which is positive proof 'that they are no physicians, 
nor even men of education, since no regular, re- 
spectable physician will thus advertise. 

Such men are only robbers and land pirates who 
live and grow rich by robbing the poor victims of 
private diseases. 

These men may heal chancres, and even sores, 
for the time being, and suppress the discharges of 
gonorrhoea by the use of some recipe they have 
found in some medical work; but the virus remains 



SYPHILIS, 59 

in the system, and in time destroys the health, 
breaks down the constitution, and at some future 
time comes out in sores and destroys the individ- 
ual. 

The only chance for the victims of these dis- 
eases is to employ regular physicians who are 
experienced in their treatment, for no others under- 
stand treating them, and not throw away their 
money and time on quacks, who are only after their 
money, thereby losing their last chance for a cure, 
when they must die an awful death. 

The successful treatment and cure of these dis- 
eases requires medical knowledge, skill and expe- 
rience, and a long time. 



60 CHRONIC DISEASES. 



CHRONIC DISEASES. 

It is a significant fact which should excite the 
greatest alarm, that seven tenths of the deaths 
among mankind are caused by chronic diseases, 
which steal upon us so imperceptibly that they 
excite no fear, and hardly attract any notice until 
death is at the door. Most of the deaths by acute 
diseases are among people who have been dying 
for years with chronic diseases. These diseases 
have slowly but surely destroyed the vitality of the 
system, have eaten off the roots of the tree of 
life, when it is easily blown over by the squall of a 
fever. 

Because chronic diseases do not at once confine 
people to their bed, like a fever, no anxiety is felt 
until we are in the jaws of death. It is no un- 
common thing that those who die of chronic dis- 
eases are about their business until within a few 
weeks or days of their death. These are called 
sudden deaths. But the fact is, as above stated, 
that they have been dying for years. There can 
be no sudden deaths by diseases, as the destruc- 
tion of the system by them is necessarily gradual. 
It is frequently the case that the progress of 
chronic disease is unmarked by any pain or other 
symptoms, save " general debility," or loss of 
strength. But generally, we are warned of death's 



CHRONIC DISEASES. 6 1 

approach by some of the following symptoms, 
which cannot excite too much alarm : 

Coated tongue in the morning ; bad taste in the 
mouth ; offensive breath ; a clean red tongue, with 
sore edges sometimes ; acid or sour stomach, 
called heartburn; goneness, or sinking in the 
stomach before meals ; sometimes no appetite, 
and at other times a voracious one ; pain in the 
side, chest and shoulders, with or without sore- 
ness ; headache ; shortness of breath, or difficulty 
of breathing, especially on going up-stairs, or with 
little exercise ; sore throat at times, and raising a 
grayish, offensive substance the size of a pin's 
head or pea, which are tubercles, indicating the 
first stage of consumption ; an inclination to hawk 
or swallow ; hoarseness and cough at times ; spit- 
ting of blood ; rattling in the lungs ; debility and 
nervousness ; low spirits, and loss of memory ; bad 
dreams, and sleeplessness. 

The first touch of the cold, icy, and paralyzing 
hand of disease should startle you from your 
lethargy, and arouse you to a sense of your dan- 
ger, since life and health depend on your having 
your disease treated in season. Still, the sick 
delay the treatment of their case, not realizing that 
delays are dangerous, and procrastination is not 
only the thief of time, but of life. They heed not 
the timely warning of reason and friends, nor their 
pains, which are the sentinels of life, crying, " to 



62 CHRONIC DISEASES. 

arms, to arms, the citadel of life is in danger, the 
enemy of life is approaching." No person ever 
died of disease, who might not have been cured if 
taken in season and rightly treated. Think of 
this, ye who are trifling with your health and life 
by neglecting to treat your case to-day. Your 
case maybe curable this month, not next, — to- 
day, not to-morrow. 

When chronic diseases have reached a certain 
stage, they change more for the worse in a few 
weeks or months than they have before this time 
for years. They have less ambition, and gradually 
grow weaker, until they sink into the grave, with- 
out any severe sick spell or great suffering. 

When the sick feel as above, they should lose 
no time in putting themselves under medical treat- 
ment. And, if patients are being treated by a 
physician, or have been treated for some time, and 
they are not decidedly better, much more, if they 
are growing worse, and sinking into the grave, it 
is high time that they change their physician be- 
fore it is too late to save them. 

People seldom attend to their diseases until they 
are unable to attend to their business, or are con- 
fined to their house or the bed, when most cases 
of chronic diseases are beyond the reach of medical 
skill. 

Is it not, then, the height of presumption and 
madness to thus trifle with health and life ? What 



CHRONIC DISS E SEA. 63 

moral right have we to delay so important a matter, 
involving such certai?i and awful consequences ? No 
skill of physicians, no tears, sighs, regrets, nor re- 
pentance, can make up for such neglect of duty ! 
Then, as you desire health, that you may live and 
enjoy life, attend to your case to-day, before it is 
too late to save you from a premature grave ! 

Remember, that, although you have repeatedly 
tried and failed, still your only hope and chance for 
health and life, is to continue trying until palsied 
by the cold, icy hand of death, which is your 
Christian duty, and a duty, you owe to your family 
and friends. 

It is for the reason that I have made the 
study and treatment of these diseases a specialty 
for over thirty years, that I understand them 
better, and treat them more successfully than phy- 
sicians in general, who give their time and atten- 
tion to family practice, as such physicians can have 
but little, if any experience in treating Chronic 
Diseases. 



TO THE SICK. 



DR. KNAPP, OF CHSCACO, 

now located in Providence, is treating successfully 

ALL CHRONIC DISEASES, ON A NEI SYSTEM, 

which embraces the best and most approved methods in this and 
other countries, for treating diseases, including the use of 

ELECTRICITY, AND PNEUMATIC, OR DRY-CUPPING, 
and Inhalation of Atomized Medicines. 

He treats successfully all Neuralgic and Nervous Affections, 
all forms of Scrofula, Fever Sores and Old Ulcers, Dyspepsia, Dis- 
eases of the Liver and Kidneys, Dropsy, Constipation, all Skin 
Diseases, Pulmonary Consumption in its early stages, Paralysis, 
Epilepsy, Salt Rheum, Headache, Heart Disease, Fever and Ague. 

HE CURES ALL DISEASES OF THE 

Throat and Lungs, and Diseases of the Heart, 

if applied to in their early stages. He cures more cases of 

Curvatures, Weakness, and Diseases of the Spine, 

and all other Deformities, than any other physician in America. He 
treats these diseases on entirely new principles, and with a new ap- 
paratus. He has had an extensive practice and wonderful success in 
the treatment of CANCERS, which he cures without Cutting or 
Eating them out. He cures all 

DISEASES OP THE EYE AN1> EAR, 

which he treats on a NEW SYSTEM, including? CUPPING-. See 
testimonials. He never fails to cure RHEUMATISM, in all 
its stages, no matter of how long standing. 

C A T A. Tt 11 H. 

He is treating Catarrh on a NEW SYSTEM, which is a sure cure 
for this terrible disease, with which almost every person is more or 
less afflicted. 

CONSULTATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS FREE. 
His consultations for years have averaged several thousands a 
year, which gives him an experience unsurpassed by any other phy- 
sician, and equalled only by a few. 

j&s^* He does not promise to cure all stages of disease, and no case 
will be received where there is any doubt of cure or relief. 

4®^ Dr. Knapp, having been burnt out in the great Chicago fire, 
has located in Providence, R. I. 

4^* All letters inclosing a letter stamp, addressed to Horace 
Knapp, M. D., Providence, R. I., will be promptly answered. 



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